City of Gold

Jonathan Gold is the foodie guru of Los Angeles. You can only try to imagine the culinary offer of a city whose map has locations like Little Armenia, Little Ethiopia or Tehrangeles. But Gold reportedly knows all the taco stands and, according to one of the people in the film, discerns Korean food better than many a local Korean. In 2007, Gold became the first food critic in history to win the Pulitzer Prize, not for describing exotic dishes, but for his search for cultural context and highlighting the potential of urban diversity. In Gold's opinion, there is no such thing as one good restaurant, there are thousands of them, and for thousands of different reasons. Gold's reviews go far beyond the food and constitute a particular guide through this megalopolis without an epicenter where the adjective multicultural seems to be a euphemism. Director Laura Gabbert, fresh out of UCLA film school, got to know the city through Gold's columns and so she shares it in a similar way with viewers. But she admitted in an Indiewire interview that the reason she made the film is to write "a love letter to Los Angeles." (IndieWire)